Michael Duggan

Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?

How did one honorific colonise our language?

The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss

Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness

His writing beautifully describes the older Europe that we lost

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s musical coming out just nine years after the end of World War II invited Germany back into polite society